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I’ve seen people take pay cuts to be happier in other jobs, but that happiness doesn’t always work out long term. Primarily because costs of living keep going up and their former role would have saved them a lot of financial difficulties that they are experiencing due to their new “happier” roles. Essentially their happiness at work is being paid for with unhappiness in their pocketbook. It’s impossible to maintain the same lifestyle so it requires downsizing for it to work.

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I just took a 40% paycut to move from consulting to industry.

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Our approach has been to live off and do minimum required savings from base salary and bonus is for fun+investments

This turns into a double whammy if your position gets downskilled or there is any sort of restructuring initiative. If you recognize that you could be in this boat I'd prioritize your liquidity and boosting your emergency funds. This way your prepared (at least financially).

I hope I never get to this point

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hiya fishes. happy friday! sorry if this isnt the right bowl, but this is in regards to vacation time. i have an interview process starting next week, and wondering when it would be good to mention i would be OOO between the middle of the month in september? its for a week. im unsure if i can twist this to have a start date once im back. going back and forth on being transparent vs. mentioning it later on. thoughts?

My two year anniversary of starting my career (in general) is coming up in the next 3 weeks.

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Just posting as a reminder to LEAVE that job (within a reasonable time 😂) and go where the money is!

(p.s. I already know some of you have had higher increases in the same amount of time & I consider 6 months minimum is “within a reasonable time”)

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